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Alan C. Love is professor of philosophy and director of the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Minnesota.¿William C. Wimsatt is Peter B. Ritzma Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Chicago, and Winton Chair in the Liberal Arts and professor of philosophy at the University of Minnesota. He is author of Re-Engineering Philosophy for Limited Beings: Piecewise Approximations to Reality.
Conceptions of quantum mechanics imply that many of the actual measurements can have no definite outcomes. Some quantity is always indefinite and if an indefinate quantity is measured, the macroscopic state of the measuring apparatus becomes indefinite itself. The text offers insights into this.
Isabelle F. Peschard is associate professor of philosophy at San Francisco State University.¿Bas C. van Fraassen is McCosh Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Princeton University and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University.
Establishes a historical framework for the study of logical empiricism. The articles challenge the idea that logical empiricism has its origins in traditional British empiricism, pointing instead to a movement of scientific philosophy in the German-speaking areas of Europe from 1900-1940.
Although the mathematization of nature is adistinctive and crucial feature of the emergence of modern science in theseventeenth century, this volume shows that it was a far more complex,contested, and context-dependent phenomenon than the received historiographyhas indicated.
This work resulted from a workshop on the implications of the cognitive sciences for the philosophy of science Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science. It delineates the emerging impact the cognitive sciences are having on the content and methods of the philosphy of science.
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